Gravel Driveway Support Grids

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Does anyone have experience of these at all? I want to lay gravel along the side of my house however the one issue is getting the bin in and out.

I have been looking at Aco Groundguard http://www.aco.co.uk/product_detail.php?id=1

Are they much of a muchness? I only need about 15 m2 of the stuff but don't really want to spend more than £250.

Thanks for any input.
 
I bought a sack truck for £30 - Got a galvanised wall strap and bent it to size of bin - bolted it to sack truck and just pull bin on and bracket lines it up and down drive it goes - before it was PITA - two dragged out wheel lines. - coming back was ok.

Dave
 
ive designed similar into schemes at work, generally their best for protecting lightly trafficed turf/verges.

to behonest id hire a whacker plate for half a day (£25) and properly compact the gravel in 50mm passes. anything with both curved and flatish gravel pieces with nearly go as hard as stone plus with still allow rainwater through.
 
Electroshadow said:
ive designed similar into schemes at work, generally their best for protecting lightly trafficed turf/verges.

to behonest id hire a whacker plate for half a day (£25) and properly compact the gravel in 50mm passes. anything with both curved and flatish gravel pieces with nearly go as hard as stone plus with still allow rainwater through.
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Thanks for the idea, I might give that a go as an alternative.
 
For light use I think these are a good option but for this purpose perhaps the whacker plate and maybe granite chippings would be the best solution.

These grids don't look good for long in heavy traffic areas - I'm trying to figure out what to do in my drive and keep coming back to these.
 
x-grid isnt too bad can take 350 tonnes per m2 costs about £9 a m2. and is a little tougher than the ACO stuff.

there is plenty of plastic stuff avalible that will work, although stick to stuff that has a depth of 40mm or greater. But with everything ground related its all about how well to compact the lower layers.

very roughly i would look at something like:

grass.

dig out 250mm

50mm reinforcement filled with soil and seeded.
50mm rootzone material - sand/soil mix
geotextile fabric
150mm type 1 subbase / 20mm scappings - well compacted


Gravel.

dig out 200mm

50mm reinforcement filled with gravel.
geotextile fabric
150mm type 1 subbase / 20mm scappings - well compacted


Various grass cretes are good but most likley to heavy duty for a drive ( we use these on highways)
 
Electroshadow said:
what do you want your drive to look like ? chippings, grass, concrete?
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Sorry, was that question for me?

If so I currently have small pea gravel but keep getting cats going to the toilet in the drive so basically something that will stop them doing that and also be harder wearing.

Had considered stonebond (resin stuff) but found it looks rubbish after a few years with moss etc. Tarmac is a possibility but expensive for preparation and application, same as brick paving.
 
maybe try concrete drive - and use rubber imprint matting to get any effect from natural stone to block paving to patterns. then use coloured quartz rub in to colour (or 2/3 colours for marbled effect) and then seal. Can look very good.
 
Electroshadow said:
maybe try concrete drive - and use rubber imprint matting to get any effect from natural stone to block paving to patterns. then use coloured quartz rub in to colour (or 2/3 colours for marbled effect) and then seal. Can look very good.
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I had a cast concrete patterned drive as my last house that was already there. looked mint and went all around the sides. it could get a bit slippy when wet though and the seal / lacquer did start to flake in high traffic areas. I think they're meant to be re-coated ever x years.

I viewed a house recently which had a very nice compressed gravel effect drive too. it was a kind of bonded stone or hard rubber crumb, not too far off what they put in playgrounds I think. it had a nice look and havd a border around it too - very flush and smooth. I think it's more of a commercial product but not sure what it is.

I don't think either are cheap though!
 
R B Customs said:
I viewed a house recently which had a very nice compressed gravel effect drive too. it was a kind of bonded stone or hard rubber crumb, not too far off what they put in playgrounds I think. it had a nice look and havd a border around it too - very flush and smooth. I think it's more of a commercial product but not sure what it is.

I don't think either are cheap though!
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Possibly this sort of thing (I am not affiliated to this company in anyway - mods please remove if this breaks any forum rules).

If it is this then ground requires a lot of preparation beforehand as well as treating for moss as it tends to come up on this depending on positioning.
 
Yea, I remember reading that at the time valve, nice work. For me that would have been good for around my daughters playhouse as she's constantly walking over it and wearing the lawn out (literally!)

Unfortunately for the drive I still think it would look a bit rubbish with the grid getting more and more visible as the gravel gets pushed through.

Back to the drawing board.

Sorry for the thread hijack :D
 
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